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Paul's Tough Guy Challenge

Paul Clarke is raising money for Watford Mencap
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Tough Guy 2012 · 29 January 2012

Watford Mencap supports adults and children with learning disabilties in SW Herts, through a range of services including Advice & Information, Residential Services, Community Support. Although affiliated with National Mencap, we receive no funding from them

Story

<p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">So 2 questions - what is Tough Guy and why am I doing it??</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.toughguy.co.uk/"><span style="color: #800080;">www.toughguy.co.uk</span></a> is possibly the hardest (&amp; craziest) thing I have&nbsp;ever signed up to do and is described as the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">&lsquo;</strong></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">safest most dangerous physical mental task day in the world&rsquo;</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">!<span style="color: black;"> So why put myself through such pain.....well,&nbsp;I am raising money for Watford Mencap who are an excellent local charity, completely self funded &amp; </span>supports over 500 people with a learning disability, their families and their carers in South West Hertfordshire.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Last Christmas we raised enough money to put on a Christmas party for the kids, and they got to meet Santa which was great!&nbsp;Seeing first hand what an fantastic job the centre does and how amazing the kids are left me wanting to do more, and as I cant run far enough to do a marathon this seemed an equally if not more challenging proposition!!</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Details of both Tough Guy and the good work Watford Mencap do are available through the links on my page. Any donation is greatly received and will make a massive difference to the ongoing support to the kids and the survival of the centre - </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">every year Watford Mencap needs to raise &pound;200,000 to support children and young people with learning disabilities<span style="color: black;">. So please dig deep and donate now.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Thank you in advance for your support </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Paul</span></p>

Donation summary

Total
£2,075.00
+ £241.25 Gift Aid
Online
£1,075.00
Offline
£1,000.00

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